issues and debates - cultural bias

Question 1

what is cultural bias?

Answer 1

the act of interpreting and judging behaviour and psychological characteristics of one culture by holding them to the standards of your own.

Question 2

what is ethnocentrism?

Answer 2

judging other cultures by the standards and values of one’s own culture.

Question 3

example of ethnocentrism?

Answer 3

ainsworth’s strange situation (1970)

Question 4

what is cultural relitivism?

Answer 4

the principle of regarding the beliefs, values, and practices of a culture from the viewpoint of that culture itself.

Question 5

what did berry (1969) propose?

Answer 5

etic and emic approaches for human behaviour.

Question 6

what is the etic approach?

Answer 6

looks at behaviour from outside of a given culture = attempting to describe behaviour as universal.

Question 7

what is the emic approach

Answer 7

functions from within or inside certain cultures = behaviours are specific to that culture.